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Just a little thing that's really bugging me so I'm hoping someone can please help me.

I run a dual boot with Windows 2000 and FC2. I recently decided it might be worth me mounting my Win NTFS partition so I can access the files on it.

Only problem is when I go to read the partition, the only one who has the priviledges to do so are is the SU. It works fine if I chmod +755 -R /mnt/NTFS.
However, when I restart my computer it resets to the SU root priviledges only.

So I figured OK and added the chmod line to my rc.local script. This solved the problem but has added about an extra minute on to the startup time - which in the grand scheme of things is not worth my bother. (I may as well just manually chmod when I need access!) Aghhh!

Is there anyway to do the chmod and for the changes to remain in affect? Am I just missing an option in my chmod command?

To have the partition mounted automatically, you can probably just remove the "noauto" option from the NTFS line in /etc/fstab. This should cause it to be mounted along with your root partition at boot up.